Patching file system

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OpenText Hightail. Changes to tables are stored in new columns or rows that are only visible to the patch edition. Note: At this point, users still remain connected to the application and performing their work.

This phase is used to perform the final operations that can be executed while the application is online:. Any actions that must be performed at cutover are pre-computed and stored for quick execution at that time. Although the cutover phase does require a short period of application tier services downtime, the online patching cycle can be paused for as long as required prior to running this phase.

You could, for example, add such a pause to ensure that the downtime period will be outside business hours. Note: The database remains open throughout the entire online patching cycle, including cutover. The following database actions are taken in this phase, which occurs after users have been brought back online to the newly-patched application:.

Creating a copy of the database part of the running system has been accomplished by taking advantage of the Oracle Database Edition-Based Redefinition EBR feature. This allows an application to efficiently store multiple copies of its application definition in the same database, and thereby enables online upgrade of the database tier. The term edition refers to the isolation mechanism that allows pre-upgrade and post-upgrade schemas to co-exist.

The simplest way to think of an edition is as a separate isolated copy of all database code objects that are changed by a patch. Run : Online users connect to this edition, which is always the default database edition. The run edition will always exist.

Patch : Patching tools connect to this edition. A child of the run edition, the patch edition exists only while a patching cycle is in progress. Old : When a patch edition is promoted to be the run edition, the previous run edition is now regarded as an old edition. There may be zero or more old editions at a given time. They are discarded when a full cleanup described later is performed.

You cannot connect to an old edition. Creating and using two file systems allows one run file system to be part of the running system, while the other patch file system is either being patched or waiting to be patched during the next patching cycle. These are abbreviated to fs1 and fs2 respectively. The two file systems are sometimes referred to as a dual file system , and swap roles at the end of each patching cycle.

That is, the file system that has just been patched is put into use as part of the running system becoming the new run file system , and the previous run file system takes over the the role of patch file system in readiness for commencement of the next patching cycle.

Important: The existence of the dual file system has significant implications for general non-patching maintenance activities. However, two file systems are not sufficient to meet all the practical needs of an online patching environment for Oracle E-Business Suite.

A third file system, described in the next section, is also required. The dual file system approach caters for application code, but applications also use the file system to read and write business data. In Release Non-editioned files are not copied or moved during patching: their location remains constant across online patching cycles.

The non-editioned file system is therefore completely separate from file system 1 and file system 2. Several AutoConfig context variables support the file systems used in online patching. The non-editioned file system is designed to store files that contain transactional data and reference data.

Examples include: import, export files, general log files, and concurrent manager log and out files. These are all examples of files that are not modified during an online patching cycle. Files used to transfer transactional data from processes external to Oracle E-Business Suite for example, where a third party order entry system delivers orders via order import files. Note: The non-editioned file system is not designed to store shared files, because initially identical files can become non-identical during patching life cycles.

Nor is it designed to store code, which is editioned one copy can be in the run file system while the other is in the patch file system. As noted above, concurrent processing in particular makes significant use of the non-editioned file system, with all concurrent manager log and out files being stored there. This has some additional implications, as described below. Before Release With Release The two main ones are 'single' and 'product'.

This is the default setting. Beginning with Release For example, concurrent request log and out files can be organized by date or by user name. These storage strategies are called schemes. EBR automatically manages versioning of objects that support editioning, such as code objects. However, not all objects can be editioned: most notably, this includes transactional data, of which there is only ever one copy.

This is implemented via synonyms and editioning views , which isolate the running application from changes to the data model that may be introduced by a patch.

That is to say, data model changes are guaranteed to not affect the running application. Data model changes are implemented as new columns on the table, which are exposed to the patch edition of the application via the editioning view. New tables can be introduced by an extension of the same principle.

A new type of object, the crossedition trigger , is used to synchronize data as part of the online patching process. These triggers provide the logic to synchronize and transform data between the run edition and patch edition storage columns. The result is that new transactions entered into the system are patched in place. More specifically, crossedition triggers allow the run edition to signal that a data update is required.

Editioning views project different views of the table to the run and patch editions, so the running application still sees the column data as upper case, while the patched application sees the column data as mixed case. The updated column is maintained by a crossedition trigger. In summary, crossedition triggers are used to upgrade both existing data and ongoing changes that occur while the run edition remains in use. Editioning views can be thought of as providing a cover layer , or logical representation of the data, on top of the physical representation.

All code Oracle E-Business Suite, custom, or third-party must access Oracle E-Business Suite data via the cover layer: accessing the data model via the physical layer may result in obsolete data been returned. Important: Any code accessing the physical model risks accessing obsolete columns. Online patching can only be used after you complete the upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release The Release Several steps can be taken to ease the transition to a Release These are divided into pre-upgrade and post-upgrade categories, and mentioned briefly below.

Any compliance issues in Oracle E-Business Suite code are automatically fixed by the upgrade to Release With regard to custom code, Oracle recommends running and studying the report before commencing the upgrade, to determine the amount of effort that will be needed for compliance. Most non-compliance issues in custom code can be fixed in the Only a small number of issues may require manual intervention. Having completed the actual upgrade, it is important to bear in mind several key aspects of the online patching environment, including identification of suitable new coding standards to ensure compliance of any new customizations.

Also, patch editions should not be treated as a testing environment: patches should still be tested on a test system rather than the production system. New test scenarios may need to be considered, given that users can now be online during patch application. For full details of the upgrade process, including online patching analysis reports and other pre-upgrade checks and reports, see the applicable upgrade guide: either Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide Release 11i to Patching is performed by running the adop AD online patching utility.

You run adop instead of the adpatch utility that was used in releases prior to The adop tool orchestrates the entire patching cycle, and can be executed by specifying phases individually or collectively. In both of these examples, only a single session id would be created.

The hotpatch mode of online patching provides the capability to apply changes to the run edition while the run edition is in active use. However, this option can only be used to apply patches that provide explicit support for it.

The readme of a patch will state if this is the case. Possible runtime transaction failure because of invalid objects - Although some objects may automatically revalidate, a hotpatch operation may not yet have finished making all the necessary object changes. This will result in associated user transactions continuing to fail until the hotpatch is complete.

If a database session has accessed a package containing package state at any time before a hotpatch operation, and then accesses the same package after the package has been invalidated, the session will get the error "ORA existing state of packages has been discarded" and the transaction will fail.

Application code and database objects may be temporarily inconsistent - If a patch loads new seed data, each uploaded change will be visible to the running application as it is committed. However, while the seed data is being loaded, only some of the necessary changes may have been committed at any given point.

This may lead to data integrity problems if the seed data is accessed during the loading operation. Tables that are patched will be temporarily inconsistent - The process of patching a table involves creating new columns, regenerating the editioning view, populating new columns via cross-edition triggers, and recreating indexes to reference the new columns.

Until this sequence of operations is complete, data in the table may appear to be missing or incorrect, or not have correct indexing. Full execution of the table patching steps are spread out over several adop phases, so the table may be in an inconsistent state for the entire duration of the hotpatch operation. It is therefore not safe to access any table from the edition that is being patched.

Code and data cached in application tier server memory may be inconsistent with changes made by the hotpatch operation - To provide optimum performance, pplication tier servers load code objects, seed data and transaction data into memory caches. After the hotpatch operation is complete, and until the application tier servers are restarted, this cached information may be out of date and lead to various types of failure or corruption.

Runtime processing may hold long-term locks on objects, causing the hotpatch operation to fail - Some database objects in active use by the running application cannot be changed by a hotpatch operation without an exclusive lock first having been obtained on the object code or data.

Such runtime processing includes long-running concurrent programs, or background services that may hold locks on code objects indefinitely. Consequently, the hotpatch operation may fail because it cannot obtain the exclusive lock required to apply some change.